Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

[Stephen]

Generally i run the quick zero which is the first and last 300mb i hiess
the next step is finding a home for the data and the 10+ hours to zero the
long way.
On Oct 18, 2012 6:45 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first part.
> Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many of the raid
> superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it would still be
> catching them if you haven't done the whole thing.
>
> I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is trying
> to grab hold of it.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
>> well  4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid. the one
>> i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do still
>> have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that.
>>
>> odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed
>> there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take a 2nd
>> look but its is really puzzling.
>>
>> I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured out
>> how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up. i may
>> leave it ghetto and just use bios.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the drive leads
>>> me
>>> to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least configured by
>>> your
>>> raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on it that is
>>> messing up everything.
>>> You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before things will
>>> start to
>>> behave correctly.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu to boot right
>>>> now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing out what is
>>>> going on.
>>>>
>>>> I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid chipset
>>>> (SB710) however i am not intending to install to those drives the
>>>> drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected single drive
>>>> but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to even finish its
>>>> boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.
>>>>
>>>> The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
>>>> '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
>>>> - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid turned off in
>>>> bios. just a single SATA HDD
>>>>
>>>> I get one of the two following errors if i have raid disks attached
>>>>
>>>> A similar entry as above comes up or i get
>>>> udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: No Such file or
>>>> directory
>>>>
>>>> the most promising option i have so far is booting with nodmraid but
>>>> it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my CDrom devices
>>>>
>>>> This is rather perplexing overall.
>>>>
>>>> Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected running
>>>> windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd but it either
>>>> is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it really does
>>>> not like that port.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
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